The problem was never our structures. Merkins just wish it was because that's something that can change in the space of a week. Our problem is lack of ability to sustain effort and concentration over 80 minutes. But there's only a couple of teams that don't have obvious weaknesses. Penrith and Melbourne, maybe the Roosters. Their weakest areas are just average: Penrith's middle attack, Melbourne's kicking game, Roosters... depth?
I would say the only team this year that doesn't have obvious weaknesses is Penrith. If you think that Melbourne and the Roosters don't have obvious weaknesses then you haven't been watching close enough.
So far the Panthers have been as good as it gets. Every other team has had massive ups and downs throughout games. I feel that this year from what we have seen so far is that they are all very beatable bar the Panthers. We can still beat the Panthers though if we brought our "A" game and some luck.
It is a pity though that our coach just can't get us playing in the style of the Panthers or the Roosters. They play the type of footy that I think would win us a premiership way easier then how we play at the moment. Looks like we will have to rely on the power game again this season. Maybe he has decided that we will take a lower intensity approach to the start of the season so that we may have more juice at the backend where it counts. Lets hope that that is all it is and that it works.
Also our wing issues are not helping at all. Just a thought......With the Premiership Rugby final finishing on the 18th of June, it would mean that even if the Bristol Bears(Semi's team) were to play in it, Semi Radradra would be free of his club commitments, right? Well that then might give us a window of opportunity and we could do a SBW style cameo from August for a couple of months in the NRL.
Money wise surely it wouldn't cost much more then around $200K and it may even be something that would scratch an itch for Semi too with unfinished business playing and winning an NRL Premiership with his old club and where it all started at Parramatta.
In my opinion it should be something that we should consider seeing how weak our options are out wide. Even when Sivo comes back there are no guarantees with that bloke on how he comes back mentally and performance wise. Also who knows what other injuries to the backline we may have by then too. If we are still contenders at that stage of the season it might be an attractive proposition.
But if we were to do it we should put quiet feelers out to his people to gauge the response. In fact I would use whoever Semi had the best friendship and connection with back here when he was with us to make the initial inquiry directly to him. If we could pull it off it would be a massive boost for us and the game as a whole publicity wise too. The buzz would be enormous. I feel it is the sort of thing that Politis and Co would try to make happen if Semi was one of theirs just like they did with Sonny.
The power and speed that we would gain would be like an injection of rocket fuel. Something that is so desperately needed to ignite our hapless backline at the moment. We need to be looking at every angle, loophole and or edge that is possible to bring us home a premiership. This may give us that 1 or 2 percent more that is needed to finally brings it to us.
